SOCA02H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 - Race and Ethnicity
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1) morton couldn t have accurately said which skull belonged to which race (that s too difficult) 2) morton only took 72 samples of people (very unrepresentative and the sample could have been unusual) 3) he didn t know whether he was taking samples of females or males (females have smaller skull sizes) In medieval europe some aristocrats (pale skinned) saw their blue veins and couldn t see them in their black peasants therefore called themselves the blue bloods but ignored the fact that they all bleed red blood. Also he got chinese people as having the highest iq score but told the govt. to ignore that. Jewish iq test scores rose as they moved up in the class hierarchy and received better education: the same happened for the black people. But two things prove this statement untrue: there has been no gene identified that links to athleticism.
